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  1. Burns

    STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ (PS5, XSX, Steam, Epic) - early 2023

    It's an action game. What loot do other action games, like GTA or RDR really have? I played the first game just like I played GTA and RDR, in that I did the main missions and played the story. All the other shit was meaningless filler too. Of course GTA has a much better story, but the Star...
  2. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Yarp. It's a huge pain in the ass to get metal. IMO it should only be used as a long term hold against inflation. On a 15+ year timeline, you should see a 17%+ rise, or at the very least get close to it, if by some miracle there is very little inflation. Hedges aren't really meant to be super...
  3. Burns

    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    My guess would be that the newer the game, the more complicated the rights holder situation is and they may take a long time to negotiate. Beamdog also decided to make it's own game and become a publisher, so maybe they are just done with the headache of dealing with EA (Bioware owner) or...
  4. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  5. Burns

    "Dominion of Darkness" - simulator of Dark Lord/Lady

    Not a bad little time spender. Lost first game, fairly early, to a Volcano. Won the second game by influence instead of war. No real suggestions except maybe make a night mode, as I hate bright websites.
  6. Burns

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    The obvious solution is to bind your own book in leather. Working leather isn't too hard and Tandy Leather Supply has some cheap tools for light use. The spine on that Blood Meridian that Skinner posted looks annoying to do yourself, but the rest is easy to acquire leather and a fairly cheap...
  7. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Ugg, a monthly plan is silly, but that tells me that the factory OBD2 device can probably (permanently?) disable it. Maybe find a local repair/race shop that specializes in German cars, give them a call, and ask if they can permanently disable the auto break system through OBD2 (& how much that...
  8. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    It's a weird oversite to have a performance marketed package that can not turn off all the nanny computer bullshit. Outside of factory fixes, no one on the enthusiast forums have figured out a way to bypass it? While it would suck to have to pay someone to disable it, if it is almost causing...
  9. Burns

    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    I don't even remember seeing The Comedian or that chick from Walking Dead in BvS. The movie completely forgettable.
  10. Burns

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Margin Call is supposed to be one of the most accurate movies about the 2008 crash, the dude did his homework. The names were changed to protect the people with enough money to murder the writer and his family, but it is about Lehman and Dick Fuld (afaik). After numerous movies, that he wrote...
  11. Burns

    Home buying thread

    For Florida: A lot of IL people seemed to have gravitated to the gulf coast between Ft. Myers and Naples. I would never live there though. I hate the bugs, the extra humidity of it all, and sand. It also seems to have a much higher percentage of sketchy people than any other state. I have worked...
  12. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Yea, It's not that all that information that the above website is offering is directly tied to a plate; it's that the plate gets you a name and address, then the internet offers tools to get the rest of the info. The more you are willing to pay, the more accurate it will probably be. Posting...
  13. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The question is: Is it responsible for a dog breeder to continue to breed and select for these traits that are known to cause issues in a large percent of said breeds, or for owners to support said breeders, when you can instead select for longer noses and undo some of the issues? It also...
  14. Burns

    Woodworking

    Yea, wow, the price on the only spiral pattern bit is a little high: Maybe I will just go with using a bushing and one of the regular $20-40 1/4" Bit & Bit or Freud carbide spiral bits (with a bunch of shallow passes and needing to calculate the offset of the bushing). I have read that you...
  15. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    Go go Gadget Force kick!
  16. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    I'm pretty sure more than one person had the unquestionably rare idea to put one of the most pivotal set of events in Western Civilization to film...
  17. Burns

    Woodworking

    It's going to be A1 white oak ply, yea. I thought with a jig set up, like the guy in that video, it would prevent chipping the face with an upcut, but he said a downcut is what he would use, if he didn't have the collar set up he used.
  18. Burns

    Woodworking

    I was wondering how well the epoxy "river" is really bonded to the wood, and if that is strong enough to put up with the stresses put on a door through normal use. Didn't even think of the humidity of the bathroom causing issues all by it's self. On a different note, I need to router some LED...
  19. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Outside of the slightly different headlights and the color, it doesn't look like they changed much. I'm sure they probably updated the interior quite a bit though, as the shadow of the seats look different and interior style preferences usually change more than exterior ones. Those type of cars...
  20. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    Bad Batch in general or just season 3? The show in general is good, but not great. It's the Clone Wars without the Jedi, so that should be where your expectations are. The little girl (Omega) can get annoying, but I assume Filoni is trying to use the Ashoka template for her, and we are just in...
  21. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    Wait, what? Pharma has fetal alcohol syndrome? I know someone with that and they don't act like Pharma at all.
  22. Burns

    Jagged Alliance 3

    Some preview copies were sent out, so here are a couple gameplay videos. Still cautiously optimistic (the other JA games, that came after JA2 looked good before release too): Short overview of mercs and world map, then into a combat mission: From starting a new game to hiring mercenaries and...
  23. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Black Twitter can sometimes be pretty good:
  24. Burns

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    Best bet seems to go off of Rtings.com scores, as they use a mostly unbiased testing method that you can evaluate how important each part is, to you. I briefly looked at wireless but they may get hotter on the ears than wired sets, and they don't seem to perform as well as equally priced wired...
  25. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    You should start adding up the money you spend on gas, then let him know how much he is "saving" every time he complains! I'm sure it will make him feel better! "$40k difference in price is rough, but at least you are saving $300 a month in gas, so it's definably worth it! After 10 years of...
  26. Burns

    The Video Thread

  27. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Welp, there is my 5% for the day! Cash me out(side)! Billion-air in no time, how bout dat?
  28. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Fucking sick pedophiles. She is less than one year old!
  29. Burns

    The Marvels (2023)

    They all look the same to me! Same color though, wiki says the Cree experimented on Yondu's race with Gene mods, so the blue is from Cree DNA? At least for the GOTG movie, it looks like the exact same paint, which now looks much darker in that marvels SS.
  30. Burns

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    Well shit, my el cheapo headset has gone UHF antenna, where I have to move it just right to get sound out of both ears. So, I went with some Philips Fidelio X2HR after a bit a research. More than I wanted to spend on a headset type I am unsure if I will like using, but they seem to be...
  31. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  32. Burns

    The Marvels (2023)

    Ronan and Yandu looked awesome, these Cree look retarded. I stopped and went back, because I thought it was due to the hair, but nope, they all look terrible. At least the guy in the back has a Dark Elf vibe for the next DnD movie.
  33. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    Small nitpick: Probably not intended but this gives the impression that Maul created Death Watch, but they were around before Maul. Clone Wars gave the impression that all of Concordia (moon of Mandalore, where the extremists/separatists/old way followers were exiled) had turned to the Death...
  34. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    You only needed to own one N64 game anyway, every other one could be rented at Blockbuster, beaten, then returned!
  35. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

    Ah, yes, If I read it in a sarcastic tone, it makes more sense. A Gif for the Jif gods:
  36. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Maybe a parody account? Otherwise, what math even gets those numbers? I can't tell where the mistakes were made. A 5% daily compounding interest on $30, starting Jan 1, is way more than 32.92 by Jan 31. Even if you only count 20 business days in January....that's $79.60? Edit: Playing around...
  37. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Is this some new filter Insta is trying to sell to Trannies, to help with their delusions? If I cant see all of the fresh cut grass, I have to assume it's a tuck! Obligatory:
  38. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    A large part of it for me is Grogu. The puppet was fine for the first season, where it gave a underlying uniting theme in, what I thought was going to be, a bounty hunter show. By the time season 2 was over, I was glad he was gone and thought it could get back to being a bounty hunter show...
  39. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

    Here you go, a whole reddit post on it. Need to click on the thread, as it looks like someone tried to DMCA a bunch of copies of the Facebook video. Here is the 360 degree (you can drag the video around) cockpit view of that exact run from the RAAF (timestamped for where the above video starts):
  40. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

    They do it every year. It's the same plane and the same buildings. Why would anyone take the time to fake something that 1000s of people have video of?